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. 2020 Nov 16:14:594799.
doi: 10.3389/fninf.2020.594799. eCollection 2020.

MP3: Medical Software for Processing Multi-Parametric Images Pipelines

Clément Brossard  1   2 , Olivier Montigon  1 , Fabien Boux  1   3 , Aurélien Delphin  1 , Thomas Christen  1 , Emmanuel L Barbier  1 , Benjamin Lemasson  1   2
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MP3: Medical Software for Processing Multi-Parametric Images Pipelines

Clément Brossard et al. Front Neuroinform. .

Abstract

This article presents an open source software able to convert, display, and process medical images. It differentiates itself from the existing software by its ability to design complex processing pipelines and to wisely execute them on a large databases. An MP3 pipeline can contain unlimited homemade or ready-made processes and can be carried out with a parallel execution system. As a viewer, MP3 allows display of up to four images together and to draw Regions Of Interest (ROI). Two applications showing the strengths of the software are presented as examples: a preclinical study involving Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data and a clinical one involving Computed Tomography (CT) images. MP3 is downloadable at https://github.com/nifm-gin/MP3.

Keywords: CT; MRI; database; image processing; medical images; pipelines; software.

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Figure 1
(A): Architecture overview and data flow, (B): Converter, (C): Viewer, (D): Pipeline Manager.
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(A) Pipeline architecture. (B) Work flow editor.
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Preclinical study: occurrences of a pipeline on a database.
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(A) Processing pipeline applied on the images acquired at day 0, day 1, and day 3. (B) Input maps: CT-scans, and output maps: Entropy maps.
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